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Description for Transatlantic
Paperback. 8vo .Good copy of the first paperback edition. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author.
1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 1845. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy ... Read more
1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 1845. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408841266
SKU
KEX0307805
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Colum Mccann
Colum McCann, originally from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of six novels and two collections of stories. His most recent novel, the New York Times bestseller Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and several other major international awards. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in New ... Read more
Reviews for Transatlantic
Praise for Let the Great World Spin: A blockbuster, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, symphony of a novel ... No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper
Frank McCourt An exceptional performance by a writer whose originality and profound humanity is evident throughout this highly original and wondrous novel
Douglas Kennedy
Independent
A giant among us ... Read more
Frank McCourt An exceptional performance by a writer whose originality and profound humanity is evident throughout this highly original and wondrous novel
Douglas Kennedy
Independent
A giant among us ... Read more